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Look who I found in my backyard! Cute little Eastern Hognose

Cute little feller he was. I love how snake can look scary from up top but the second you get a front view, he’s just a wittle goofy guy.

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Gives magnus archives vibes

Wiesław Szamborski — Meat (acrylic on canvas, 1980)

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dig mandate

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Ey got it off, the boy can see!

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Now I know why he's been so skittish, even with 90% humidity the dingus likes basking too much and ends up getting himself too crispy to shed properly. He got a stuck eye cap. Time to make spaget

Dropping them in the bathtub full of water is a bad idea, but sometimes your snek will be dumb and get crispy no matter how high the humidity is, and will need some help. His soil is moist, digital readings at 85-90% throughout the day, it just happens when they nap too long in the heat (his temps are fine too, 95-75 °F across the enclosure). I can't raise the humidity any higher to where it would make a difference in what already occured, and it's causing him stress to not see out of one eye.

A snek sauna where you saturate a towel in warm water and put them in a tupperware or pot if they're too big with the lid cracked for air lets the shed hydrate with minimal stress, and they rub it off themselves without much invasiveness. Even if it doesn't come off while they're in the pot, they'll probably rub it off in the enclosure. If not, can repeat for 10-15 mins a day until it does.

If you notice them freaking tf out, let em out, but it's not that stressful usually

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Caught in the sn-act

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Using his log tonight :)

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He's been in shed so I haven't seen my boi, hello there little one :>

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Foiled!

Today I got to go on one of our runs to more rural shelters to help relieve overcrowding there. We ended up bringing back 21 kittens and 10 dogs. So fun day. But this morning, while I was getting stuff together in preparation for the 90 minute drive…. This happened.

Excuse you Tiniest Opossum, but you are NOT allowed to escape through the front bars of the cat carrier we were housing you in. I’m going to put you back.

“NO!”

I am going to catch you and put you back and you have no say in this matter.

“NO!”

Catching you and putting you back now.

“NOOOOOO!”

Aaaand back you go. Let go of the purple towel and go in the cardboard box.

“Noooooooooooo!”

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I love these boyos

Zombie Narrowmouth Frog (Synapturanus zombie), family Microhylidae, French Guiana

The name refers to the appearance of the researchers who had to dig these frogs up when they were first described.

photographs by Vincent Prémel

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I know I've said it before, but they are the most conceptually terrifying eaters. A rock you walk by, that shoots out sideways at you once you've passed it and drags you underground fast as blinking into elaborate tunnels to be monched >:O

Beautiful art 💛

Doodles with my sand boa.

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I got a shock because she looks just like my boi on my bedsheets too lmao

Lovely gal you've got there

Apparently I haven't posted about having a snake recently so that was news to some people???

Hopefully people who don't want to see this have the tag blocked, but here is Meli!!!

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Cinnamon will bite your toes if you don't vote for her

Taxonomy Tournament: Saurians

Columbiformes. This order is made up of doves and pigeons

Serpentes. This reptile suborder is made up of snakes

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Blind velvet worm, Leucopatus anophthalmus, Peripatopsidae

Found in Tasmania and considered endangered. As the name implies, they have no eyes.

Photos 1-3 by ggiribet and 4 by sclerobunus